#xiao deserves better

[jostkiyborsch-pll]

a dirty sketch of the bestboy's head

this event made me love him even more than I used to

#xiao #genshin impact #genshin #xiao i love you #xiao genshin impact #xiao fanart #genshin fanart #adeptus xiao #xiao deserves better #i love this boy so hard #I am going to give him the world

[snackcraving]

Reminiscent

#hoyo stop making me sad I want my mew mew to be happy #everyone deserved better ngl #Zhongli as their comfort dad #原神 #genshin impact #Zhongli #rex lapis #yaksha #genshin fanart #zhongli #xiao #artwork #digital art #fan art #I came for Kaeya how did I get into this mess

[xavestory]

The ultimate sacrifice.

from my Twitter.

#xiao #genshin impact #genshin #genshin fanart #genshin impact fanart #bosacius #menogias #indarias #bonanus #alatus #yaksha #perilous trail #xaveart #my art #illustration #the yaksha's final moments #literally #my heart beats for these 5 #they deserve better

[thekansta]

them

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #魔道祖师 #songxiao #song lan #xiao xingchen #they deserved better #宋岚 #晓星尘 #宋晓

[nixnight1]

Happy Valentines day to my fav emo boys

Regulus Black

Nico Di Angelo

Can Noah Czerny be considered an emo boy with his death jokes?

Xiao

Kunikuzushi (he was betrayed too many times to not be an emo boy)

Choso

#regulus black #regulus deserved better #sirius black #james potter #jegulus #starchaser #black brothers #the marauders #marauders era #noah czerny #the raven boys #the raven cycle #genshin xiao #xiao #alatus #genshin impact #kunikuzushi #scaramouche #the balladeer #jjk choso #chousou #choso kamo

[neerbear]

SongXiao

expect a lot more Yi City content from me, I’m absolutely obsessed with it rn-

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #yi city #songxiao #xiao xingchen #song lan #song zichen #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #fanart #art #digital art #they deserved so much better

[shentunans]

Low key love him

#yes I’m biased apologies #dmbj cast #cheng yi #xiao ge #he deserves it because he was really …fine af sighs even if a little ooc #stand by for the queue #text posts #the lost tomb 2 #Low Key love that Cheng Yi’s Zhang Qiling/Xiao Ge is getting some love since Mysterious Lotus Casebook. #my gifs #I found better quality of this scene ;_; #he fine as af #陈毅 #张起灵 #小哥 #daomu biji

[xlmibby]

'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' except xiao doesn't feel like anything he went through - that endless agony and suffering that sill haunts him in the middle of the night when he closes his eyes - made him any stronger. if anything, it made him wrecked. broken. tainted with blood and pain that he doesn't seem to be able to erase.

as he's panting heavily after defeating monsters full of bad karmic energy, he can feel it, almost. that disgusting sensation etching its way deep into his bones - so deep that he slowly starts to think it's impossible to erase it. to erase all the ugliness of this pain and karma and his own past actions from the depths of his shattering heart.

darkness only sinks in, deeper and deeper. wrapping around his heart, choking his throat until he can't breathe, can't think about anything other than how much easier it would be to be erased from this world. or better, die while protecting mortals. this way, he will fulfill his oath but also erase another dangerous being full of karma from the world - himself.

lumine is nothing like him, he thinks.

after losing everything - her wings, her only family - she held closely to her heart, and going through all the pain this world has to offer, she still hopes. her eyes gleam when she helps people, the corners of her lips curl upwards at the sight of pretty sunsets. she skips a few steps when she's excited and she acts like happy small bunny who is happy to explore the world and it's mysteries (recklessly, sometimes. or at least xiao thinks she is a bit foolish - in an endearing way but still, it makes him a bit worried sometimes. it makes him want to be better so he can stay by her side and fiercely protect her heart with all his might as it was more his than his own.).

in the pale moonlight, in xiao's eyes–in the spaces bettwen his racing heartbeat and trembling exhales, she looks almost like the personification of love herself.

....how can she be so soft despite it all?

xiao knows he shouldn't dare to get closer to her, to long for any semblance of her light and presence around him... to yearn for her love, for her... he isn't sure whether he deserves it, anyway... the closure he's able to offer her might hurt her in the end, he's all too aware of that possibility and it's scaring him - just like the want for her does... lumine deserves better than to deal with someone who's more akin to a monster than to human, so unlike her...

and yet, his heart lingers there; with a girl as gentle as the moonlight and as radiant as the sunlight, whose heart is pure gold and her smile lights up his world just a little bit and makes him wish he, too, could be soft. just like her love is.

#genshin impact #xiao #xiaolumi #xiao x lumine #writing #angst. pain. agony. #i was rewatching xiao short trailer recently and... yeah #he is his own biggest enemy at the end of the end and it hurts to think about how awful he feels #every day... for centuries... it's no surprise that he was so openly taking about sacrifices he's able to make back during the chasm quest #because he feels like he's only good and useful if he's a tool. a weapon. if he's fighting and helping others - even if it means he should #good thing his love for lumine starts to soothe the pain of his past and shows him that he's not a monster and deserves better and– #that deserves another post tho but . thank you lumine #bonk xiao on his head. his heart IS soft. #how dare he not to notice it and think he doesn't deserve her love. he deserves everything good in the world (i get it but) #character analysis #fanfiction #fanfic #lumine

[lovingdabeessss]

Imagine if Yang got her thing where she goes 🥺🥺🥺 the SECOND she’s touched gently

from raven

Yang doing 🥺🥺🥺: 💖✨💖Bby, darling girl sweetheart who could never do anything wrong soft Bby majestic lovey sweetie beloved💖✨💖

Raven doing 🥺🥺🥺: sad pathetic loser❤️

Bonus angst because imagine if summer had invited Raven back into the polycule and convinced Raven to at least visit and be apart of the family again and Yang and Ruby almost got their entire healthy family to raise them prior to summer totally dying and fucking that all up

Raven: *does all of the terrible Raven shit*

Me: >:/

Raven: *gave Yang her terrible flirting and sad eyes*

Me: oh!! Forgiven

#rwby #yang xiao long #ruby rose #summer rose #raven branwen #taiyang xiao long #qrow branwen #str crossed lovers #team strq #rosebird #blake belladonna #bumbleby #summers gonna beat the SHIT out of her team when she sees them again #summer: you die for five seconds and you all use it as an excuse to not care for my babies #tai: but they’re fine #summer; look at them!! they’re basically su*cidal #Yang: you doing ok mom? #raven: when I die your mom Is gonna kill me #Yang: if it makes you feel better you totally deserve it #raven: it really doesn’t

[studiokawaii]

Two cute tsunderes together.

In case you don't know, these two were supposed to end up together on the show, but their story was removed due to time and budget limitations. What is a shame, because given their personalities, these two together would be something reaaaally fun to see!

(TL;DR: I ship them.)

#lbfad #love between fairy and devil #cang lan jue #clj #canglan jue #xunfeng #Fairy Danyin #Zhang chen xiao #Hachi Wang #Wang Yue Yi #The goddess of war and the moon prince #They deserved better #Though I'm happy with Danyin not needing a man to be happy #I still ship them #fanart #our art

[accio-victuuri]

xiao zhan weibo update

Thanks to CMG for the second #中国tvtv annual ceremony# and I wish you all a happy new year

#xiao zhan #congratulations gege! #you deserve it all 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #it will only get better and better!

[the-path-to-redemption]

Ruby's treatment of Penny in v8 was pretty disgusting and their reunion in v7 was nothing short of lackluster, but the fact that she actually grieved for her the whole volume 9, didn't immediately get over her death like the rest of them (with the exception of Weiss to an extent), and tried to preserve the last thing that remained of her, says that Ruby was only one who gave a shit about her. Penny's death hit so hard it finally forced Ruby to snap out of her I-will-save-everyone holier-than-thou hero complex.

Like recall Yang and Blake. Who the fuck would behave this way like an hour after learning of their friend's death? Can you imagine Yang acting the same way if it was Blake who'd died in her place? No cuz Yang cares about Blake. But it's not that uncommon for our paragons of virtue and glory to have little to no reaction when something horrible happens to their friends/allies, is it? Either Penny meant nothing to WBY or rt legit sucks at portraying relationships and human emotions.

Long Post Ahead

It's both.

RWBY does not give a fuck about Penny and RT being trash at portraying human anything are both accurate statements that has been coexisting for as long as the show has been running.

And honestly, I'm not even surprised that _WBY doesn't give a shit about Penny. Ever since she was introduced in V1, Penny was Ruby's friend and only her firend. She didn't interact with anyone else in Beacon, and we only got to see her teammate Ciel ONCE in the entire show, so I would be more surprised if the rest of RWBY even know something about Penny before she died. Yang did in V7, and I was a bit shocked because they have NEVER interacted once after their first meeting.

But back to the matter at hand, it's very clear that the writers brought back Penny because the fans expected them to (which is fair) but just stopped at that. Penny is back because it make sense and the fans like her, but why? Narratively, why is she back? Especially when Ruby was less than adequate in treating Penny's return or seeing her as a friend. Not only that, Penny was still stuck in the same predicament that troubled her in Beacon, that she doesn't have a choice or a say in how she want to live her life as her own person, but instead must put duty and her role in the grand scheme of things first, leaving her with no agency for herself.

Many people criticized Ironwood for this, but RUBY also took that choice from Penny in V8. She constantly wave off Penny's concern for the people now that they have created a civil discourse between them and Ironwood, and shut down any of Penny's attempt to properly deal with her regrets and choices.

And then Penny dies, and the Winter Maiden power went to who it was always meant to go to. Why was she brought back? Why put her through so much only to fucking kill her off again, and for her death to be for someone else's motivation, whether it be Ruby or Jaune?

Because Penny wasn't a character to RT. She's a plot device, and that's all she was. I don't doubt that Yang would care more if Blake dies or vice versa, or Weiss would care more if it was Winter. They don't have a reason to care about a plot device that doesn't directly affect them or their story. Only Ruby could because Penny was her friend, but even then I still could not look past how she treated the poor girl.

It's just a frustrating ordeal to look at, because you could've went literally any other route, and it would have meant something. Penny would have meant something. But it's too late now. They wrote themselves into this corner, and now they have watch their story crumble under the pressure.

#answered #anonymous #rwde #rwby critical #anti rooster teeth #ruby rose critical #yang xiao long critical #team rwby critical #penny polendina #penny deserved better

[dragynkeep]

Yang in volume 1:

Yang in volume 9:

Yang in volume 2:

Yang in volume 9:

Yang was more mature in the early volumes than she is now change my mind

They fr just butchered Yang's character and stripped her of all the positivies she had in the earlier volumes, supposedly before her "development".

#submission #frankly in the first volumes she didn't even stuck me as the type of character whose defining trait was anger #she was quick to resolve to it when she was fighting sure #but generally for someone whose main flaw was supposed to be agression she didn't seem like an angry person to me #well except for that scene where she yelled in blake's face and shoved her against the desk twice #that was just yikes #wasn't romantic at all🫠 #in fact at some point in her development of dealing with her emotions I believe she should've recalled moments in her life #when she didn't notice she needlessly resolved to anger even when she genuinely meant well #during my first watch she even gave me the impression of that empathetic older sister type #who would on the contrary sometimes would know what to say to calm someone down #and who is just too mature and cool to get pissed over some bs #and when they got angry you knew it meant shit mustve gone bad for real #yes i know i slept on the series #but now she's really walked out on the only significant development she had #yang deserved better #rwde #yang xiao long #luke.txt

[fistfuloflightning]

During a sect-wide conference, Yue Qingyuan reluctantly takes it upon himself to befriend Huan Hua Palace’s new sect leader. After all, he can’t be worse than the Old Palace Master, who everyone is glad to see gone. Any replacement is better than him…right?

Gongyi Xiao is just glad he doesn’t have to approach Cang Qiong’s sect leader first.

Another of my unlikely ships :D vibes inspired by Prayers to the Winds

#two soft bois who deserve better than what they got #and in my mind that means each other 😌 #they can be as sickeningly domestic as I want them to be #goes hand in hand with that post them vacationing in another genre #domestic fluff my beloved #svsss #yue qingyuan #gongyi xiao #svsss art #yueyi #my art #svsss au #fic ideas

[blubiboom]

To the ends of this cycling fatalism - dance together with me. ♫ 

#魔道祖师 #薛暁 #暁薛 #xuexiao #xiaoxue #xueyang #xiaoxingchen #xue yang #xiao xingchen #i love them #they deserved better #mdzs #the grandmaster of diabolism #mxtx characters #fanart #donghua #anime #xuexiao dance

[danmeigirl]

The fight that started all, hats off to the entire cast and production crew to give us this masterpiece ❤

#epic fight scene #masterpiece #master of martial arts #they deserved better #li xiangyi #di feisheng #chinese drama #cdrama #drama scene #lets dance #mlc #mysterious lotus casebook #the lotus casebook #cheng yi #xiao shunyao